RedisHttpSession

RE: RedisHttpSession

icewariiya s — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:03:18 GMT

You can use redis client and server in the same terminal that you are supposed to run the program on any programming language they can easily be accessed and used as a cache memory

RE: RedisHttpSession

Brian_Chalifour — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:33:24 GMT

Nope. Just a nice to have.

RE: RedisHttpSession

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:15:33 GMT

OK. I understand. Besides the necessary re-authentication, is that an issue?

RE: RedisHttpSession

Brian_Chalifour — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:07:37 GMT

Almost. Our source for SAML authentication will only authenticate a user but does not provide a host for session. If the user has authenticated and attempts to re-authenticate with another application, the authentication source will have to be queried again (I think the x509 cert gets sent, but I'm not 100% on that).

So without a place to store a session that distributed applications can access, each application will host their own session (inclusive of session state).

RE: RedisHttpSession

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:42:56 GMT

Isn't this what SSO using SAML is doing?

RE: RedisHttpSession

Brian_Chalifour — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:33:47 GMT

Thanks for the info on access to session information.

The intent was to set up distributed session management where our Appian instance is one service under a federated services ecosystem.

RE: RedisHttpSession

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 05:42:24 GMT

Appian does not support access to any session details.

I still do not understand the purpose of your ask. Which problem do you want to solve?

RE: RedisHttpSession

Brian_Chalifour — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:25:04 GMT

I'm looking to have a user session in Appian either serialize to/from Redis. The intent is to host session management in an area accessible to other developed apps.

From the notes in the hotfix (above) I'm not sure if there's already a Redis instance bundled in Appian or not. If not, if there's a way to get the user session integrated.

RE: RedisHttpSession

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:44:08 GMT

What do you want to achieve and which problem to solve?